Is Piglet's arrival imminent?

Ahmie has been feeling more contractions this past week and over the past two days she has been feeling them a little bit differently. She has been noticing contractions since before Summer break started but they were irregular and infrequent, they were a bit more frequent last week and it seems that as this week (week of June 17th). She has been feeling them come with more frequency and this evening she had been noticing that they are between 5-10 minutes apart. Ahmie had a glass of wine this evening to help slow down these contractions.

I wonder if his arrival is imminent because the contractions she had this evening, as she described them "they are inwardly focusing" and she said that she felt the contractions "starting higher up and washing downward towards her backbone and pelvis". Ahmie's due date is July 7th which I think would be really cool. Ahmie is however not disappointed if our baby piglet (because this is the Chinese year of the Boar/Pig) were to be born sooner because she does not like hot weather. She does not look forward to the hot weeks ahead. Suprisingly it has been quite cool the past several days.

We have been cleaning sorting and rearranging the house a bit. So far the living room, office, and kitchen are pretty clean and tidy. Our bedroom needs to have clothes hung up the bathroom needs some attention and the blue room has had much improvement but we still need to vacuum and organize some things in there. Our bedroom is getting there we have our mini cosleeper set up next to Ahmie's side of the bedroom.

Ahmie wanted to give birth at home for Liam's birth but due to several reasons we decided not to give birth at home but instead at a hospital attached birthing center. Most of the hang ups were with me. I did not know for sure how Ahmie would endure labor with Liam. I just was not sure what happens during a birth. I was concerned what if something went wrong. Personally being part of Liam's birth and being there and seeing how Ahmie knew and was very aware of birthing Liam. I was much more comfortable with Ahmie having a home birth with Piglet. I however wanted to have help and assistance to oversee Ahmie's labor. We decided after moving to our new house that we should home birth.

Reasons (in no particular order)
1. We are really close to the hospital. In the back of my mind I do fear some sort of complication but we are like 3 blocks away from Lakewood Hospital.
2. Birth is a life event and rarely a medical event. Since we are in a home that we own and plan on living here for many years to come . I think that it would be great that our children born at home and have a deep connection to the home that they live in.
3. Both of my parents were born at home.
4. I know Ahmie can give birth and I have faith that she will be able to bring Piglet into this world also.

Liam is so wonderful it is hard to imagine life without him. I think he would be a great big brother. We knew that he understood that there was a little baby inside Ahmie and it is just priceless during winter when he would say:

Piglet come out mama's tummy help Liam shovel (snow).

Recently, Liam has been in the habit of pretending to take Piglet from Ahmie's tummy and holding the pretend Piglet in his hand and carefully holding the baby. When we had the mini cosleeper set up he did exactly that and he placed Piglet very gently in the cosleeper and then gave the imaginary Piglet a kiss. It just melts your heart.

We have also decided to start really potty training Liam, he can go most of the day without accidents if we ask him to go every 30 to 45 minutes it seems that he can hold it while he naps so things are good.

But Friday Liam developed strange red splotches all over his body and on his face. We were concerned and we took him to an Urgent Care and the doctor said that he may have a systemic allergy attack, meaning he ate something he was allergic to. He seems alright but he looks horrible with the splotches all over his face. Obviously this puts a hamper on the potty training and complicates preparing for Piglet's arrival. He mostly seems to be itchy. We give him Oatmeal baths and lotion him up and give him Benedryl to try to treat this. Tho the doctor at the urgent care gave a prescription for Zyrtec I wanted to try to give him something over the counter before giving him a prescription. He is still splotchy but seems to be diminishing, still itchy but lotion seems to take care of that along with the oatmeal baths.

Its getting late and I should make sure I rest up. Because I know I won't pretty soon.